Supported PCB Design Systems

ConnTrace supports the majority of Schematic Capture / PCB development systems from the leading vendors Altium, Cadence, Mentor Graphics and Zuken. Different formats may be used within a single project.

Most interfaces are based on a netlist generated by the PCB system. If your PCB system is not present please check if it is capable of generating one of the netlists presented below. If you have a netlist format which is currently not supported please contact HDL Works. Adding a new format can often be realized in a short time frame.

Support by Vendor

• Altium
• Cadence Design Systems
• Allegro
• Orcad
• Mentor Graphics
• Board Station
• Design Capture
• DxDesigner
• PADS
• VeriBest
• Zuken
• CADSTAR
• CR-5000

Support by file format

• EDIF (Altium, VeriBest)
• Cadence packaged netlist (pstxnet.dat, pstchip.dat)
• Cadence Board file PCB (.brd)
• Cadence Telesis netlist (.tel)
• Zuken RINF netlist (.frs)
• Zuken NDF netlist (.ndf)
• Mentor DxDesigner 'Quick Connection View' (.qcv)
• Mentor Packager cross ref. netlist (.pxr)
• Mentor Board Station netlist (.net, nets.txt)
• PADS ascii database (.asc)

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